Baroque Vocabulary

Painting style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to drama and theatrical type scenes.

• Baroque Painting
• Alla Prima
• tenebroso 
• chiaroscuro

A style of painting where there are violent contrasts of light and dark to create dark and or gloomy effects.

• genre painting           
• verisimilitude
• tenebroso 
• impasto

Paintings that depict every day life often with the common people of the day. 

• plein aire
• memento morri             
• naturalistic 
• genre painting           

Painting or illustrations where the subjects are inanimate objects.

• genre painting
• freeze frames
• still-life     
• alla panna

A painting technique, used mostly in oil painting, in which layers of wet paint are applied to previously administered layers of wet paint.

• Alla Prima
• Alla Panna
• impasto
• empasto

Art dealing with evening or night.

• evenstar
• evenesacnce
• nocturns
• nocturnes

Art that is believable, or having the appearance of being true.

• verisimillitude
• verisimilitude
•  chiaroscuro
• chiaroscouro

Italian artistic term used to describe the dramatic effect of contrasting areas of light and dark in paintings

•  chiaroscuro
• tenebroso
• chiaroscouro
• tennebrosso

Artwork of realistic objects in a natural setting.

• naturalistic
• plenn aire
• mannerism
• baroque

 A painting with a skull but other symbols commonly found are hour glasses or clocks, extinguished or guttering candles to remind people all lives are mortal.

• tennebroso
• R.I.P symbolism
• memento mori             
• carino skulto